Another excellent summer of trip reports, Jon! I know it's time consuming posting reports and I appreciate all the work you've done. Reading your daily reports has become somewhat of a summer ritual! I haven't read everyone else's comments or suggestions for next summer, but here are a a couple I've often day-dreamed about:
1. Enter a small buy-in poker tournament (or a comped casino tournament) every day for a month in Las Vegas at different casinos. I'm sure the reporting of your results would be awesome.
2. Identify the best VP machines in each casino you decide to play in, calculate what the expected loss/ gain would be, and try to attain the highest or second highest tier level for each casino / company. ie) Diamond @ Harrah's, Gold @ Venetian, Platinum @ MGM etc. (Only if it's economically possible of course. Seeing as you've just retired, who wants to go looking for part time work should this not pan out?!)
Best of luck as always,
Ed